Revolutionise the boring banking world

The first half of the third year of my study consisted of an internship. Contrary to my classmates, I decided to do my internship abroad. Starting the end of August until the end of December, I worked at a digital design agency in Stockholm, Sweden. My internship company, Nicknamed, works on creating an innovative digital bank. My field of responsibility was UI/UX. We used a design framework called Google Material Design as a base for the application, but the further we got, the more we diverged from it.

For every screen I designed, I went through the same steps. The process always started with a meeting in which I was told what screen I had to design or a brainstorm session regarding the next step. After this, I made multiple wireframe sketches of the screens I had to design on paper. This allowed me to quickly compare different layout options.

My next step was to digitalize the best sketches. My favourite software to use is Sketch. I often finish a full part of the application before I start redesigning them so I can check them with my superiors and make sure they are in line with each other.

In some cases, especially in early stages, a click model is made after this. We tried to do this as often as possible to give us a way to test the flow and the features with test persons before putting a lot of visual design time into it. Invision is the tool I used the most for this way of prototyping.

After the wireframes, the time has come to design the final screens. Similar to the previous steps, I often made multiple versions of the designs to show them to my supervisor and get feedback. During my time at Nicknamed, we went through approximately four different designs styles. I am the proudest of the last version I worked on. In this version, we used a vibrant blue for the background and used yellow as an accent colour. This was a really fresh combination and the yellow went very well with some different theme colour options we would finally introduce like pink, orange, green and even some very dark tones like dark blue and black.

In many cases, these visually designed screens were also made into a clickable prototype to test with the target audience or the client. This allowed us to easily confirm our assumptions.

Unfortunately, the Payd app was not finished before I left Stockholm. I really liked the direction we headed to in the end and hope the company uses many of my designs in the final product. Of course, these screenshots are not all I designed, but I can’t show more because of the confidentiality of the product.